Learn about the new trend in cloud computing called serverless. See how it is implemented using Azure Functions and Logic Apps, advanced monitoring with Application Insights, and examples written in Node.js.
18. Tasks/ Activities
• Replicate logs from
one data center to
another
• Analyze the logs
• Take action
Using Functions
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Manage FTP cred
but with automation
• Use FTP library
• Use Azure SDK
Before Functions
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Manage FTP cred
• Use FTP library
• Use Azure SDK
19. File added to
Blob Storage
Transform CSV to data rows Power BI
Chart graphic
22. Tasks/ Activities
• Upload data to
storage
• Process data
• Expose REST API
Using Functions
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Build Web API App
• ‘Use Azure SDK’
• Built async data
processing (scale)
Before Functions
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Build Web API App
• Use Azure SDK
• Built async data
processing (scale)
Photo taken and
WebHook called
24. Millions of devices feed
into Stream Analytics
Store data in
SQL Online
Transform to structured data
27. Deployment and management isolation
Customers
Products
Orders
API calls
customers.azurewebsites.net
products.azurewebsites.net
orders.azurewebsites.net
28. Function app A
/customers
Function app B
/products
Function app C
Function3/orders
Function1
API proxy endpoints
HttpTrigger function endpoints
Key:
/products
/orders
Function2
33. Tasks/ Activities
• Collect tweets
• Analyze tweets
• Display rich analysis
Using Serverless
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Connect (auth)to
twitter
• Using Twitter API
(SDK)
• Analyze tweets
• Build rich client to
show results
Before Serverless
• Setup a VM/
Container/ WebJobs
• Build/ patch/ deploy
• Monitor infra
• Connect (auth)to
twitter
• Using Twitter API
(SDK)
• Analyze tweets
• Build rich client to
show results
34. Introducing Azure Logic Apps
Fast integrations using a visual designer and workflow
creation with triggers and actions
Connect applications, data and services
Connect and orchestrate Azure Functions
40. Key scenarios for monitoring
Monitor
• “What’s my
app doing?”
Alert
• “Is my app
unhealthy?”
Diagnose
• “Why is it
unhealthy?”
Learn
• “What is my
app doing?”
(Introductions and set expectations that this presentation is designed to discuss the role of Azure as the cloud computing platform for a business’s digital transformation.)
Yochay writes books, blogs, and articles about scale, apps, and good end-2-end user’s experience.
Talking points: (New)
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Before Cloud (or even now), let’s say you run a successful business and you try to build business apps, you have two options. You can either build on premises or co-location. You will go and buy servers and infrastructure to run your business applications.
With that came many questions when you build and manage your own server. From what servers to buy, how to provision my new server, what do I do if there is hardware failure, to how to deploy my code and patch my servers, there are simply too many things to consider.
It can be overwhelming when you manage your own physical servers.
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Well, a much cleaner picture, isn’t it? A few years later, there is this thing called “IaaS”. The idea is, you don’t need to buy or build your own servers, use our infrastructure service, aka IaaS.
With that, you don’t have to worry about provisioning your servers, or securing the physical location of your server farm. Many questions go away.
But, there is but… you still need to think about which IOS to use, how to patch the server, in addition to managing your business apps. Can those tedious tasks be taken care of as well?
Talking points: (New)
Yes. We have this service called Platform as a Service, PaaS. What is great about it is, VM patching, IOS selection, back up and code deployment are all built into PaaS platform for you. Isn’t that great?
Now only four questions remain,
How many servers do I need?
What is the right size of server for my biz? S1, P3?
How can I increase server utilization?
More importantly, how I scale my app?
Let’s see how everything works together so far --- transition into the IaaS & PaaS chart.
Abstraction of servers, infrastructure and configuration of operating system
Event-driven scale
Sub-second billing
Stateless
Serverless compute is a fully managed service. Some refer to it as Functions as a Service
OS and Framework patching is performed for you
There is zero administrative tasks and no need to manage any infrastructure
You just deploy your code (function) and it runs
Your code runs within seconds and for very short period of time
Serverless compute scales quickly (almost instantly) and vastly
Automatically scales within seconds
No scale configuration is required (there is no way to configure scale or limits)
Scales to match any given workload. Scales from zero to handle tens of thousands concurrent functions invocations within seconds
Pay only for the time your code is running
Serverless compute reacts to events
React, in near real-time, to events and triggers
Triggered by virtually any event from Azure service or 3rd party services
Setup time, provisioning is long & costly
“Pinnacle of PaaS compute”
Not just hardware “servers”, but software servers are also managed for you
Focus on business logic, not solving technical problems not core to business
Lower effort to get started makes it easier to experiment (bots, etc.)
Benefits of “Serverless”
Bindings abstract away where the data is coming to
Logic Apps
Programming free paradigm with a visual designer, drag and drop workflows
With Connectors to different types of services (eg an FTP server)
Talking Points: (Updated on 4/3/17)
Lets talk about what really makes up MSFT’s Serverless platform: At the center of the Serverless platform, is our compute offerings: Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. Azure Functions is an event based Serverless compute experience that helps you accelerate your development. Run time is open. Function code can be executed in vm or somewhere else, on prem or in clould. Logic Apps is a powerful orchestration tool. It enables building a Serverless app in minutes – by orchestrating multiple functions using a visual workflow tool.
Say you have your apps up and running using Serverless. Congratulations! You now need to collect intelligence from different apps across platforms to take actions upon. There are a few essential components which we think are core to building Serverless applications are:
Data/ Storage –Functions has triggers and bindings with Azure document DB and Azure Blob storage
** Triggers: Triggers are event responses used to trigger your custom code. They allow you to respond to events across the Azure platform or on premise.
** Bindings: Bindings represent the necessary meta data used to connect your code to the desired trigger or associated input or output data.
Messaging such as queues and topics using Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs
Integration – that includes core LOB apps and SaaS apps integration via Azure Logic Apps.
Intelligence on data and sentiment/ predictive analysis using Cognitive services and Machine learning
Conversation as a service – how do we equip developers to build apps that offer an end-to-end experience for their end users – Azure Bot Service offers a Serverless interactive bot experience.
More, developers are spending more time writing code that allows them to add huge business impact with Serverless. MSFT offers numerous development tools such as IDE Support for Visual Studio in functions and Logic Apps, enables local development (vs web browser coding environment), visual debugging capability, all with your tools of choice.
Lastly, I also want to highlight top scenarios and use cases for Serverless:
Real-time Stream analytics: Customers can use Functions to feed real-time streams of data from application tracking into structured data and store it in SQL online.
SaaS event processing: Customers can use Functions and Logic Apps to analyze data from an excel file in Onedrive and perform validation, filtration, sorting and convert data into consumable business charts
Web app architecture: Used a lot in creating targeted marketing collaterals – when a customer clicks on a webpage, it triggers a webhook, that uses a function to create an ad that matches the customer profile and displays a completed webpage.
Real-time bot messaging: When customers send a message to a chatbox, Functions calls Cortana analytics to generate appropriate answers and sends a response back.
//from before: Customers have different paths to build a Serverless app – start by building the distributed application components using functions by leveraging the numerous templates and declarative bindings Or
Start with the workflow and orchestration of Serverless application using Azure Logic Apps. The visual designer enables developers to quickly and easily author, edit and visualize orchestration of multiple functions and workflow.
In today’s cloud enabled world, businesses are solving for maximum efficiency and faster time to market, while reducing IT spend.
Over the years we have seen businesses evolve from spinning VMs to leveraging the benefits of PaaS cloud such as managed infrastructure, scalability, high availability and cost.
Today, more businesses are trying to solve for what is core to their business focus – delivering services faster to their customers, while reducing IT spend significantly. The answer comes in the form of Serverless application platform.
In industry terms, when you hear someone say “Serverless” more often than not they are talking about Serveless Compute services which form the glue that enable developers to build their apps faster leveraging a variety of other PaaS services.
Serverless lets businesses maximize their benefits of the PaaS cloud by offering a fully managed infrastructure, with no servers to manage, provision and patch; hence reducing management overhead significantly. The event triggered programming model, allows for continuous auto-scaling and micro billing capabilities. Event-triggered compute and event-triggered scaling allows businesses to pay only for the compute power that was used, depending on the size of the workload.
Simple hello world from portal
Show file -> new experience in Visual Studio 2017
Public hello world with output to queue
Accuweather Function Use
Replace On-Prem Cron/Batch Servers
Needed a system that supports multiple languages
Use a combination of Event & Timer Triggers
Initial Use Case: Automation of API Log Analytics
Download Logs Periodically from FTP Site
Change their names before storing
Replicate to Cool Storage for DR purposes
Run Analytics (not in Azure Functions)
Queue trigger -> count in table
Hello world -> queue
Queue trigger -> logs
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My simple logic app
Twitter application
Show solution in Ibiza
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-Started with BizTalk server (in for 17 years) – how can we move things faster between enterprise integration? LogicApps was born out 100% out of Azure.
-how to reduce integration from weeks/months to days?
Call out that we now support stored procs on-prem
Logic Apps can integrate with “anything” (APIs) and solve small or complex problems. Automation in a secure and reliable environment fast and easy.
Connect Anything:
On-premises, hybrid and cloud
Mission critical, complex integration scenarios
Business productivity
Agile Business:
Quickly create workflows
Position to the future API centric
Transform Business:
Extract value from both (on-premises and cloud apps)
Build Holistic integration solutions.